Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-16
DAILY HERALD.
TALE OF HORROR.
Mss Hattie Woolsteen
Charged with Murder,
AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
She Confesses to Having Killed
DIR. Harlan Because he Sc
duced Her.

AS was preulcteu ny the iEhALp
yesterday, the mystery of DR.. Harlan's
demise and Miss Hattie Woolsteen's
incarceration came to a head yester-
day. No developments were obtain
able from Chief OF Police Darcy, who
was not only very reticent to all the
reporters, but even, to call it by a
mild term, uncordial. The reason of
this behavior is partially due to MIR.
Darcy's unamiable manner of treating
the knights OF the quill, and partially
to the nervous surexcitation which he
has undergone while hunting up
DIR. uARLAN's MURDERER.
AS nothing of satisfactory nature
could be found out by the press, the
reporters of the morning papers,
ALWAYS alive to the interests OF the
public. concluded that Mr.. Darcy had
held Miss Hattie Woolsteen about
long enough and that the matter OF her
arrest should be fully ventilated. To
further this end the services OF Hugh
J. Crawford, ESQ.,, were engaged to
sue out a writ of habeas corpus for the
production of the young woman held
on suspicion OF murder, on the
ground that she was illegally
restrained of her liberty. The writ
was obtained and made returnable
before Judge Hutton at 80 p. NJ. yes
terday. 1t was served by Deputy
Sheriff Frank Bene dict who stated
afterwards that Mr.. Darcy made some
difficulty about accepting it, but that
he finally Welded. At half-past four
YESTERDAY afternoon Hattie Woolsteen
was produced before Judge Hutton,
but in the meantime Mr.. Darcy had
instructed Sergeant Jeffries to swear
out complaint against the prisoner
for murder and consequently when
Miss Woolsteen's attorney had pre-
scented his case, it was met by
District Attorney Depuy with a
warrant of arrest signed by
Justice Austin, charging the young
lady with the murder of DR.. Harlan.
Under these circumstances nothing
remained for the court but to remand
the prisoner to the custody OF the
Chief of Police. She was then taken
back to the station and Immediately
afterwards conveyed to the City JUS
tices' Court, where she was arraigned
on the charge of murder.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Miss Hattie Woolsteen, a tall blonde
young lady with candid and honest
face, rather too freckled maybe but by
no means unpreposslng approached
the bar and in answer to Justice
Austin's inquiry replied that she
would be ready for examination at any
time that would suit His Honor. The
Court then remanded her without bail
into the custody of the Sheriff until
Monday afternoon at 3 O'Clock. Miss
Hattie was accompanied by her sister.
also very prepossin young lady.
1t was expected that Mr.. Darcy,
who beside being Chief OF Police, is
Deputy Sheriff also. would have taken
his prisoner away from his uncom-
Portable office Immediately, in accord
ance with the mandate of the Court,
but such was not the case. He took
the girl back to her old quarters and
size intimated desire to visit the
closet. She remained there but one
minute and took advantage of that
, one moment of liberty to draw from
one of her stockings one ounce vial
OF chloroform which she had kept con-
cealed there ever since her arrest and
in one gulp drank down the contents
of the whole bottle. Immediately
afterward she was taken deadly sick
and the cries of her sister attracted
the attention OF Sergeant Jetfries.
Seeing the desperate condition of the
Door Young woman, Jetfries at once
ran for "A doctor and the first one he
met was DR.. Bryson, who relieved
Hattie's stomach of the noxious drug
she h I'D taken. The prisoner when
seen by a Herald reporter at
eight O'Clock last night was lying
pallid upon hard lounge in Darcy's
private office, breathing stentoriously |
and looking as if any minute she was
ready to give up the ghost. Her
sister, in the next room, was weeping |
as if her heart would break and alto
gether the spectacle was most tragic.
JEFFRIEs SPEAKS.
Sergeant Jeffries, the able officer |
who has probably done more in the |
case than any one else, was quite |
overcome by the attempted suicide of
Hattie, but having been requested by
the HERALD reporter, probably for |
the fiftieth time, to tell what he knew |
about the case, said as follows
"When this matter was placed in my |
hands Immediately made the rounds |
OF the livery stables, coBceiving that
that was the basis upon which my in
quiry should start. / worked very
hard for some time, but finally |
struck clew at livery stable at the
corner OF Hill and Fourth streets.
Here learned that young woman
had hired buggy on Thursday night |
and had not returned it until O'Clock
on Friday morning. worked up this
clue and found that the young lady
was Hattie. Other detectives were
at work too and the result of our
labors was that we found Hattie had
been the last person who had been
seen in company with Harlan. When
we were ready we arrested her. If
we have refused hitherto to give in
formation to the press it is because
we thought that there was male ac-
complice in the case and we think so
vet. You know that l have had
charge of this unfortunate woman
ever since she was placed |
under custody and l have
spoken with her considerably. |
She is deep, whatever else she may
be. After | had pumped her for all
WAS worth she finally admitted that
on the
NIGHT OF THE MURDER
She had taken u drive with Harlan.
They had gone on foot from Miss Hat
ties room on Fort street until they
had reached the stable mentioned
before, at the corner OF Hill and
Fourth street. Here Harlan said to
the girl that she had better get the
buggy herself, while he stood in the
rJ haoausa there were two men